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Econometric Modeling in Finance and Insurance with the R Language

On February 15th, IFM2, the Institute of Financial Mathematics in Montréal will organize an (one day) Executive workshop on Econometric Modeling in...

0 replies - 1147 views - 12/21/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Tutorial: Apache Pig With Amazon Elastic MapReduce - Part 3

Amazon Web Services presents this five-part tutorial on using Apache Pig with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, showing you how to create a simple log-parsing...

0 replies - 526 views - 12/21/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Analyzing Big Data with Twitter - Lecture 3: Intro to Hadoop

Here's the third lecture in Berkeley ISchool's series on using Twitter (and other tools) in big data analytics. This lesson focuses on Hadoop.

0 replies - 550 views - 12/21/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

10 Software Process Management Best Practices

Regardless of software process management type (waterfall, scrum, iterative etc.), there are some main rules which should be considered about software...

11 replies - 15680 views - 12/20/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

Beethoven, Beatles, and Beyoncé: More on the Lindy Effect

This post is a set of footnotes to my previous post on the Lindy effect. This effect says that creative artifacts have lifetimes that follow a power law...

0 replies - 1952 views - 12/20/12 by John Cook in Articles

Download the Steamdrill Demo

A few days ago, we’ve released the beta version of streamdrill, the real-time event analysis engine which we’ve extracted from our the...

0 replies - 1327 views - 12/20/12 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Fluentd: The Missing Log Collector

AboutThis post introduces Fluentd, an open-source log collector developed at Treasure Data, Inc.The ProblemsThe fundamental problem with logs is that...

0 replies - 1466 views - 12/20/12 by Sadayuki Furuhashi in Articles

Getting Terminal Colors Right

This post is courtesy of Villiam Holub.As a part of our work on ANSI escape code coloring, I looked in detail at default colors used in different command line...

0 replies - 864 views - 12/20/12 by Trevor Parsons in Articles

Analyzing Big Data with Twitter - Lecture 2: Growing a Human-Scale Service

Here's the second lecture in Berkeley ISchool's comprehensive series on using Twitter (and other tools) in big data analytics:

0 replies - 815 views - 12/20/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

DevOps for Python: Doing More With Less

Noah Kantrowitz introduces you to Chef and Fabric, helping you to apply your Python skills in DevOps:

0 replies - 1529 views - 12/20/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What’s New in Mingle 12.4?

We all know there are countless project management tools out there.  Several get attention because of the big name developers on staff or the freeness...

0 replies - 2510 views - 12/19/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Code Reviews: Understanding and Breaking the Stigma

The phrase "code review" can evoke a negative or emotional response from many programmers. The negative undertone stems from the perceived judgment of their...

0 replies - 3548 views - 12/19/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

The Lindy Effect and Technology Survival Patterns

The longer a technology has been around, the longer it’s likely to stay around. This is a consequence of the Lindy effect. Nassim Taleb describes this effect...

2 replies - 2198 views - 12/19/12 by John Cook in Articles

Tutorial: Apache Pig With Amazon Elastic MapReduce - Part 1

Amazon Web Services presents this five-part tutorial on using Apache Pig with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, showing you how to create a simple log-parsing app:

0 replies - 1499 views - 12/19/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Berkeley ISchool: Analyzing Big Data with Twitter - Lecture 1

This is the first lecture in Berkeley ISchool's series on using Twitter (and other tools) in big data analytics: In this course, UC Berkeley professors and...

0 replies - 1321 views - 12/19/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles